From Eli Roth, director of Cabin Fever, Hostel and Thanksgiving, comes the deliciously nasty summertime treat ICE CREAM MAN, driving his vintage van of terror into cinemas on 7th August to scare you witless. A truly gory, hilariously nasty shocker, this is Roth at his bad taste best - you’ll never look at a Flake 99 in the same way again! The trailer can only hint at the mayhem Roth will unleash in cinemas this August.

An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results...As the frozen treats unleash an insatiable hunger in the children who eat them. With each sweet scoop, once-innocent kids transform into gruesome butchers with their sights set on adults.

Starring Ari Millen (Orphan Black) as the sinister dispenser of frozen treats that turn kids into killers, and Charlie Zeltzer as the boy who discovers something is amiss, ICE CREAM MAN will not disappoint horror fans in search of outrageously inappropriate and imaginative kills. Further cast includes Benjamin Byron Davis (Guardians of the Galaxy 3), Karen Cliche (Thanksgiving), Dylan Hawco (Heartland), Sarah Abbott (Black Mirror), Shiloh O’Reilly (Thanksgiving), Kiori Mirza Waldman, Charlie Storey (Thanksgiving) and Roth himself.

Along with directing and producing the film, Roth wrote the script with longtime collaborator Noah Belson (Cabin Fever). Media Capital Technologies’ (“MCT”) Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh also produced, alongside Cream Productions’ Kate Harrison. Executive producers include MCT’s Kevin Frakes, Connor DiGregorio, Eli Massillon, and Lorenzo Antonucci, and The Horror Section’s Jon Schnaars and Holly Adams.

Featuring music from the legendary GRAMMY® nominated rapper/actor Snoop Dogg, and executive produced by the GRAMMY® award-winning rap icon Nas, ICE CREAM MAN will be released by The Horror Section in the U.S. and STUDIOCANAL’s genre label, Sixth Dimension will distribute in their territories including the UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Poland, Australia, and New Zealand.

STUDIOCANAL will release ICE CREAM MAN in UK & Irish cinemas on 7 August 2026

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ABOUT SIXTH DIMENSION

Sixth Dimension is a new European genre label dedicated to the development, production, acquisition and distribution of high concept horror, thriller and science fiction films from visionary filmmakers, emerging and established.

Based in the UK, Jed Benedict heads the STUDIOCANAL label and reports directly to Ron Halpern, EVP of Global Production.

Benedict rejoined STUDIOCANAL in 2024 after his previous eight-years with the company between 2012 and 2020 where he was VP, International Acquisitions and Production acquiring such films as Another Round, Hell Or High Water, Train To Busan, Saint Maud, You Were Never Really Here, Dragged Across Concrete, Amazing Grace and helped to acquire Hereditary for Australia.

ABOUT STUDIOCANAL (a CANAL+ Company)

STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+’s in-house studio, is Europe’s leading film and television studio.

Through its in-house operations and network of 23 production companies across Europe and the US, STUDIOCANAL finances, produces and distributes around 100 films per year, and produces more than 20 premium local and international series.

STUDIOCANAL owns one of the world’s most prestigious film libraries, including the largest catalogue of European films, with nearly 10,000 titles from 60 countries spanning a century of cinema. Since 2020, the studio has invested €25 million in the 4K restoration of 1,000 films, including Breathless, The Graduate, Terminator 2, and Love Actually.

Building on the global success of Paddington, STUDIOCANAL is scaling its franchise model through three new labels: STUDIOCANAL Stories, focused on adapting literary hits for film and TV; STUDIOCANAL Kids & Family, dedicated to building children’s entertainment franchises, and STUDIOCANAL ON STAGE, specialising in adapting films for live theatre.

The STUDIOCANAL catalogue which is one of the most prestigious film libraries in the world boasts more that 9,900 titles from 60 countries spanning 100 years of film history. Over the past 7 years, STUDIOCANAL has invested close to 25 million euros into the 4K restoration of nearly 1000 classic feature films. STUDIOCANAL’s restoration strategy gives both longtime cinephiles and the Letterboxed generation the opportunity to experience classics as they were meant to be seen; on the big screen. STUDIOCANAL fully supports independent, repertory, and mainstream theaters worldwide from a catalogue rich with opportunities to bring iconic IPs to audiences of any generation and to cinemas on a global scale

About The Horror Section

The Horror Section is a media company focused on creating the world’s premier genre brand. Founded in 2025 by horror film legend Eli Roth in partnership with Media Capital Technologies (MCT), the company super-serves horror fans by owning and controlling a premium intellectual property library of unhinged films, television series, games, and podcasts, in addition to curating horror-centric experiences. The Horror Section’s upcoming slate includes Roth’s Ice Cream Man, and Don’t Go In That House, Bitch!, with Snoop Dogg on board as a producer as well as writer and performer on the original soundtrack. For more information, visit horrorsectionstudios.com.